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#DailyStream: it’s never too late to get busy living. Blunt January blues with movies about fresh starts... and yes, even today’s film, 2007’s #TheBucketList, is about how new beginnings are possible even at the end. #Prime US/UK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-its-never-too-late-to-get-busy-living.html

#DailyStream: when a brave new life is forced upon you… Blunt January blues with movies about fresh starts. Today: 2013’s #TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty, an airy fairy tale, buoyed by an infectious joy. #Prime US, #DisneyPlusUK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-when-a-brave-new-life-is-forced-upon-you.html

#DailyStream: Reese Witherspoon hits the hiking trail to redeem herself. Blunt January blues with movies about fresh starts. Today: 2014’s #Wild, in which a woman is as honkingly screwed up as men get to be onscreen. #DirectTV US, #DisneyPlus UK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-reese-witherspoon-hits-the-hiking-trail-to-redeem-herself.html

#DailyStream: Will Smith pulls himself up by his bootstraps. Blunt the January blues with movies with positive vibes about fresh starts. Today: 2006’s surprisingly unsentimental #ThePursuitOfHappyness. #Peacock US, #Prime UK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-will-smith-pulls-himself-up-by-his-bootstraps.html

#DailyStream: Will Smith pulls himself up by his bootstraps. Blunt the January blues with movies with positive vibes about fresh starts. Today: 2006’s surprisingly unsentimental #ThePursuitOfHappyness. #Peacock US, #Prime UK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-will-smith-pulls-himself-up-by-his-bootstraps.html

#DailyStream: Will Smith pulls himself up by his bootstraps. Blunt the January blues with movies with positive vibes about fresh starts. Today: 2006’s surprisingly unsentimental #ThePursuitOfHappyness. #Peacock US, #Prime UK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-will-smith-pulls-himself-up-by-his-bootstraps.html

#DailyStream: Will Smith pulls himself up by his bootstraps. Blunt the January blues with movies with positive vibes about fresh starts. Today: 2006’s surprisingly unsentimental #ThePursuitOfHappyness. #Peacock US, #Prime UK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-will-smith-pulls-himself-up-by-his-bootstraps.html

#DailyStream: Will Smith pulls himself up by his bootstraps. Blunt the January blues with movies with positive vibes about fresh starts. Today: 2006’s surprisingly unsentimental #ThePursuitOfHappyness. #Peacock US, #Prime UK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-will-smith-pulls-himself-up-by-his-bootstraps.html

#DailyStream: an elegantly nuanced story of emigration. Blunt the January blues with movies with positive vibes about fresh starts. Today: 2015’s #Brooklyn, in which the marvelous Saoirse Ronan heads to 1950s NYC. #Prime US, #LionsgatePlus UK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-an-elegantly-nuanced-story-of-emigration.html

#DailyStream: an elegantly nuanced story of emigration. Blunt the January blues with movies with positive vibes about fresh starts. Today: 2015’s #Brooklyn, in which the marvelous Saoirse Ronan heads to 1950s NYC. #Prime US, #LionsgatePlus UK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-an-elegantly-nuanced-story-of-emigration.html

#DailyStream: an elegantly nuanced story of emigration. Blunt the January blues with movies with positive vibes about fresh starts. Today: 2015’s #Brooklyn, in which the marvelous Saoirse Ronan heads to 1950s NYC. #Prime US, #LionsgatePlus UK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-an-elegantly-nuanced-story-of-emigration.html

#DailyStream: an elegantly nuanced story of emigration. Blunt the January blues with movies with positive vibes about fresh starts. Today: 2015’s #Brooklyn, in which the marvelous Saoirse Ronan heads to 1950s NYC. #Prime US, #LionsgatePlus UK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-an-elegantly-nuanced-story-of-emigration.html

#DailyStream: an elegantly nuanced story of emigration. Blunt the January blues with movies with positive vibes about fresh starts. Today: 2015’s #Brooklyn, in which the marvelous Saoirse Ronan heads to 1950s NYC. #Prime US, #LionsgatePlus UK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-an-elegantly-nuanced-story-of-emigration.html

#DailyStream: happy optimism and fabulous food to rebuild your life. Blunt the January blues with movies with positive vibes about fresh starts. Today: 2003’s #UnderTheTuscanSun, starring a delightful Diane Lane. #Prime US, #DisneyPlus UK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-happy-optimism-and-fabulous-food-to-rebuild-your-life.html

#DailyStream: starting over ain’t easy. Blunt the January blues with movies with positive vibes about fresh starts. Today: 2012’s #SilverLiningsPlaybook, which leans hard into the itchy aspects of going crazy from life’s pressures. #Netflix US, #Prime UK

https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-starting-over-aint-easy.html

#DailyStream: starting over ain’t easy. Blunt the January blues with movies with positive vibes about fresh starts. Today: 2012’s #SilverLiningsPlaybook, which leans hard into the itchy aspects of going crazy from life’s pressures. #Netflix US, #Prime UK

https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-starting-over-aint-easy.html

#DailyStream: starting over ain’t easy. Blunt the January blues with movies with positive vibes about fresh starts. Today: 2012’s #SilverLiningsPlaybook, which leans hard into the itchy aspects of going crazy from life’s pressures. #Netflix US, #Prime UK

https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-starting-over-aint-easy.html

#DailyStream: starting over ain’t easy. Blunt the January blues with movies with positive vibes about fresh starts. Today: 2012’s #SilverLiningsPlaybook, which leans hard into the itchy aspects of going crazy from life’s pressures. #Netflix US, #Prime UK

https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-starting-over-aint-easy.html

#DailyStream: starting over ain’t easy. Blunt the January blues with movies with positive vibes about fresh starts. Today: 2012’s #SilverLiningsPlaybook, which leans hard into the itchy aspects of going crazy from life’s pressures. #Netflix US, #Prime UK

https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-starting-over-aint-easy.html

#DailyStream: a society of the snow... with wolves. Hey, it’s yet another oh-no-we-crashed-in-the-snow-how-shall-we-survive? adventure thriller to accompany #SocietyOfTheSnow. 2012's #TheGrey also has apex predators! (Liam Neeson probably counts as one too.) #Max US, #Prime UK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-a-society-of-the-snow-with-wolves.html

#DailyStream: a society of the snow... with wolves. Hey, it’s yet another oh-no-we-crashed-in-the-snow-how-shall-we-survive? adventure thriller to accompany #SocietyOfTheSnow. 2012's #TheGrey also has apex predators! (Liam Neeson probably counts as one too.) #Max US, #Prime UK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-a-society-of-the-snow-with-wolves.html

#DailyStream: welcome to the new year’s revolution... Another circuit of planet Earth on apocalyptic train #Snowpiercer sees an uprising of the downtrodden. Will the new year bring renewal to an unjust society, or merely more of the same stagnation? #Hulu #Netflix US, #LionsgatePlus #Mubi UK

#DailyStream: welcome to the new year’s revolution... Another circuit of planet Earth on apocalyptic train #Snowpiercer sees an uprising of the downtrodden. Will the new year bring renewal to an unjust society, or merely more of the same stagnation? #Hulu #Netflix US, #LionsgatePlus #Mubi UK

#DailyStream: welcome to the new year’s revolution... Another circuit of planet Earth on apocalyptic train #Snowpiercer sees an uprising of the downtrodden. Will the new year bring renewal to an unjust society, or merely more of the same stagnation? #Hulu #Netflix US, #LionsgatePlus #Mubi UK

#DailyStream: welcome to the new year’s revolution... Another circuit of planet Earth on apocalyptic train #Snowpiercer sees an uprising of the downtrodden. Will the new year bring renewal to an unjust society, or merely more of the same stagnation? #Hulu #Netflix US, #LionsgatePlus #Mubi UK

#DailyStream: welcome to the new year’s revolution... Another circuit of planet Earth on apocalyptic train #Snowpiercer sees an uprising of the downtrodden. Will the new year bring renewal to an unjust society, or merely more of the same stagnation? #Hulu #Netflix US, #LionsgatePlus #Mubi UK

#DailyStream: why does a movie about depressed writers feel festive? Set at a college bookfest in a Pittsburgh February, all the snow + the theme of finding your true family among likeminded weirdos seems to make 2000 dramedy #WonderBoys fit the season. #Paramount+ US (leaving soon), #BBCiPlayer UK

#DailyStream: why does a movie about depressed writers feel festive? Set at a college bookfest in a Pittsburgh February, all the snow + the theme of finding your true family among likeminded weirdos seems to make 2000 dramedy #WonderBoys fit the season. #Paramount+ US (leaving soon), #BBCiPlayer UK

#DailyStream: why does a movie about depressed writers feel festive? Set at a college bookfest in a Pittsburgh February, all the snow + the theme of finding your true family among likeminded weirdos seems to make 2000 dramedy #WonderBoys fit the season. #Paramount+ US (leaving soon), #BBCiPlayer UK

#DailyStream: why does a movie about depressed writers feel festive? Set at a college bookfest in a Pittsburgh February, all the snow + the theme of finding your true family among likeminded weirdos seems to make 2000 dramedy #WonderBoys fit the season. #Paramount+ US (leaving soon), #BBCiPlayer UK

#DailyStream: why does a movie about depressed writers feel festive? Set at a college bookfest in a Pittsburgh February, all the snow + the theme of finding your true family among likeminded weirdos seems to make 2000 dramedy #WonderBoys fit the season. #Paramount+ US (leaving soon), #BBCiPlayer UK

#DailyStream: a celebratory movie for when you want to feel festive but not Christmassy. 1987’s #BabettesFeast is a gentle tale of sacrifice and giving that is very much in tune with both the story of Christ and the gustatory joys of the Christmas season. #Max US, #CurzonHomeCinema UK

#DailyStream: a celebratory movie for when you want to feel festive but not Christmassy. 1987’s #BabettesFeast is a gentle tale of sacrifice and giving that is very much in tune with both the story of Christ and the gustatory joys of the Christmas season. #Max US, #CurzonHomeCinema UK

#DailyStream: a celebratory movie for when you want to feel festive but not Christmassy. 1987’s #BabettesFeast is a gentle tale of sacrifice and giving that is very much in tune with both the story of Christ and the gustatory joys of the Christmas season. #Max US, #CurzonHomeCinema UK

#DailyStream: a celebratory movie for when you want to feel festive but not Christmassy. 1987’s #BabettesFeast is a gentle tale of sacrifice and giving that is very much in tune with both the story of Christ and the gustatory joys of the Christmas season. #Max US, #CurzonHomeCinema UK

#DailyStream: a celebratory movie for when you want to feel festive but not Christmassy. 1987’s #BabettesFeast is a gentle tale of sacrifice and giving that is very much in tune with both the story of Christ and the gustatory joys of the Christmas season. #Max US, #CurzonHomeCinema UK

#DailyStream: the Israeli men in charge of policing Palestine. If we want to understand how Israeli security agency Shin Bet approaches its occupation and subjugation of Palestine, the Oscar-nominated 2013 documentary #TheGatekeepers is a good start. #Prime US; not streaming UK, alas

#DailyStream: secret romance among freedom fighters. 2014's #Omar, from Palestine, could be much the same terse suspense drama if it were set in 1970s No Ireland or 1960s E Berlin. A compelling portrait of a situation with no wins, only varying kinds of losses. #Kanopy US, #CurzonHomeCinema UK

#DailyStream: secret romance among freedom fighters. 2014's #Omar, from Palestine, could be much the same terse suspense drama if it were set in 1970s No Ireland or 1960s E Berlin. A compelling portrait of a situation with no wins, only varying kinds of losses. #Kanopy US, #CurzonHomeCinema UK

#DailyStream: secret romance among freedom fighters. 2014's #Omar, from Palestine, could be much the same terse suspense drama if it were set in 1970s No Ireland or 1960s E Berlin. A compelling portrait of a situation with no wins, only varying kinds of losses. #Kanopy US, #CurzonHomeCinema UK

#DailyStream: secret romance among freedom fighters. 2014's #Omar, from Palestine, could be much the same terse suspense drama if it were set in 1970s No Ireland or 1960s E Berlin. A compelling portrait of a situation with no wins, only varying kinds of losses. #Kanopy US, #CurzonHomeCinema UK

#DailyStream: secret romance among freedom fighters. 2014's #Omar, from Palestine, could be much the same terse suspense drama if it were set in 1970s No Ireland or 1960s E Berlin. A compelling portrait of a situation with no wins, only varying kinds of losses. #Kanopy US, #CurzonHomeCinema UK

#DailyStream: the West Bank we don’t see on the news. Oscar-nominated 2012 doc #5BrokenCameras is a distressing portrait of everyday Palestinian life, where kids’ birthday parties are the same sort of ordinary events as Israeli soldiers arresting children. #Kanopy US, #BFIPlayer UK

#DailyStream: smashing stereotypes in Palestinian courtrooms. 2018 documentary #TheJudge introduces us to a pioneer of Islamic jurisprudence and a woman as fiery as any Western feminist: Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first female judge in Palestine’s family courts. #Prime and #AppleTV US/UK

#DailyStream: the official beginning of Yuletide (I don’t make the rules). Many a New Yorker believes, as I do, that Christmas does not begin until, as seen in 1947’s #MiracleOn34thStreet, Santa arrives at the end of the Macy's Thanksgiving parade. Christmas? Now officially ON. #DisneyPlus US/UK

#DailyStream: crime under cover of giant Thanksgiving balloons. There’s no big turkey dinner in ingenious 2011 crime comedy #TowerHeist, but revenge against a pension-defrauding Wall Street sleaze does get served up cold and sweet amidst New York City’s Thanksgiving Day parade. #Hulu US, #Prime UK

#DailyStream: desperate women, desperate measures. Courtney Hunt’s 2008 film #FrozenRiver, with an incredible Melissa Leo, straddles moralities, gender motivations, and ideas of poverty and despair in such a way that you’re not sure, by the end, what’s “right” and what isn’t. #Hulu US, #BFIPlayer UK

#DailyStream: finding necessary purpose in elderhood. Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi’s Oscar-nom'd doc #TheMoleAgent -- about a man who goes undercover in a nursing home to suss out possible abuse -- is an unusual combination of clever and touching. #Hulu #Kanopy US, #BFIPlayer #DogwoofOnDemand UK

#DailyStream: finding necessary purpose in elderhood. Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi’s Oscar-nom'd doc #TheMoleAgent -- about a man who goes undercover in a nursing home to suss out possible abuse -- is an unusual combination of clever and touching. #Hulu #Kanopy US, #BFIPlayer #DogwoofOnDemand UK

#DailyStream: finding necessary purpose in elderhood. Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi’s Oscar-nom'd doc #TheMoleAgent -- about a man who goes undercover in a nursing home to suss out possible abuse -- is an unusual combination of clever and touching. #Hulu #Kanopy US, #BFIPlayer #DogwoofOnDemand UK